Posts Tagged ‘libraries’

From the Sunday Telegraph. I hope government funding plans don’t harm the Combined Cadet Force in schools, as some fear. “Corps” was what you did on Thursday afternoons at my boarding school. Be...
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A few weeks ago, I made a passing reference to an item on the BMA's website, where I'd come across a link to the "Doctors against climate change" wing of the doctors' trade union. This body of medico-...
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Although libraries in my part of London have been consolidated into one central branch, they're still a great "resource". But the last time I took my children to our local library, all was not well I'...
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The BBC thinks we haven't heard enough about libraries. On a day when thousands of police officers are about to be forcefully retired, and when we are engaged in the small matter of a war, Radio 4 gav...
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Tomorrow in South London I shall be joining various more-famous-than-me authors including Sarah Waters, Edmund De Waal, Julie Myerson, Stella Duffy and the world renowned Itinerant Poetry Library at a...
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I was looking forward to the re-opening of the local library. It’s been closed for refurbishment since May, and been doing business out of the small junior library, which has space for only a small ...
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